Thanks you for visiting. Our fireplace goes every evening and really makes the harth room cosy.

I designed the actual fire box higher off the ground than typical so the fire can be seen & enjoyed from the kitchen and the loft too. It's a focal point but I wanted it to be open to the entire space.

Hi, Anne Marie, thanks for playing a long in my Christmas tour! I have had a hard time visiting all those links, but it sure has been fun. Thanks for the compliments & believe me, I'm not a pro at photos, I just do the best I can with my Canon point and shoot. I've had it almost a year & have gotten a lot better with my photography by playing around with the settings.

One thing I'd say on your blog is work on getting your pics bigger. If you load them larger, that will help a lot. I did a post not long ago about enlarging pics, if you want to take a look.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen on Womenly Virtue

“To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”

About Me

In the beginning (2006 or so) I blogged about our adoption process. We home studied, we got the training to become foster parents, we waited, we said yes to every group of kids the agency spoke to us about and …..NOTHING HAPPENED. Zip, zero nada.
So I changed my blogging focus to living a life of fidelity to Christ and his vicar the Pope and blogged about infertility, and miscarriage and living life from a Catholic perspective.
Then one day we got the call, and this time was different. This boy was available for adoption, and we were on the short list. He moved in, the adoption was finalized two months later, and our new history is being made day by day.
This blog is about our journey as a Catholic family living our lives waiting with joyful hope for the coming of our Lord.